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Narrator: WHEN THE THIRD REICH
FELL IN 1945,
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THE WORLD HAD NO IDEA
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ADOLF HITLER WAS
A SECRET BILLIONAIRE...
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Man: HE LOVED MONEY
ALL THE TIME,
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HE JUST WASN'T PREPARED TO DO
MUCH WORK FOR IT.
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Narrator: ...WHO HAD STOLEN
FROM HIS OWN COUNTRYMEN...
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Man: HE LOOKS AT GERMANY AND HE
LOOKS AT HIMSELF AS BEING ONE.
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Narrator: ...WHO DICTATED
A LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
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JUST HOURS BEFORE
COMMITTING SUICIDE.
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A TAX EVADER WHO TRIED TO HIDE
THE TRUE NATURE OF HIS WEALTH.
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Man: AND HERE YOU CAN SEE
A LOT OF THE THINGS
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HE JUST PUT A LINE THROUGH.
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Narrator: WHO COLLECTED GREAT
WORKS OF ART FOR HIS OWN GLORY.
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Man: HE SET OUT TO FORM
THE WORLD'S SUPREME MUSEUM.
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Narrator: WHO BUILT
A SECRET PROPERTY EMPIRE.
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Man: ALL OF THESE BLUE DOTS
HAVING SOMETHING TO DO
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WITH HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY.
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Narrator:
AND WHOSE NAME AND IMAGE
COULD MAKE ANOTHER FORTUNE.
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Man: WHOEVER OWNS THOSE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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CAN CONTINUE TO RECEIVE
THE INCOME STREAM.
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Narrator: THIS FILM WILL REVEAL
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HOW THE FUHRER
REALLY MADE HIS MONEY.
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Woman: THIS IS HITLER THE MAN.
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Narrator: AND THE MAN
WHO TRANSLATED HIS WILL
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TELLS HIS STORY FOR
THE FIRST TIME ON TELEVISION.
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Man: WE WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED
AT WHAT WAS DISCOVERED.
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[ARTILLERY FIRE]
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Reporter:
IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN,
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THE NAZIS FIGHT BACK
WITH FURIOUS DESPERATION.
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Narrator:
AS THE RUSSIAN ARMY CLOSED IN
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ON ADOLF HITLER
AND HIS FELLOW NAZIS IN 1945,
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THE FUHRER REALIZED THE GAME
WAS UP AND HE'D LOST THE WAR.
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Reporter: ON THE FINAL LAP
OF THEIR DRIVE ON BERLIN,
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RUSSIAN TROOPS SEND
THE GERMANS REELING.
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Narrator: JUST BEFORE DAWN,
ON APRIL 29th,
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IN HIS UNDERGROUND BUNKER
IN BERLIN,
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HE GATHERED HIS MOST TRUSTED
STAFF AND AIDES TOGETHER,
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MARRIED HIS LONGTIME MISTRESS,
EVA BRAUN,
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AND THEN BEGAN
TO DICTATE A WILL.
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[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
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IT TOOK TEN PAGES TO SET OUT
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WHAT HE CALLED
HIS POLITICAL TESTAMENT...
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A RANT AGAINST
THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
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BLAMING THEM FOR THE WAR.
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AND THEN HE DEVOTED
JUST THREE PAGES
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TO HIS PERSONAL WEALTH
AND WISHES...
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LEAVING IT TO HIS EXECUTOR,
MARTIN BORMANN,
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TO DECIDE WHAT EACH FRIEND
AND RELATIVE GOT.
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Man: ADOLF HITLER.
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[GUNSHOT]
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Narrator: IT WAS NINE DAYS
AFTER HIS 56th BIRTHDAY.
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Reporter:
THIS IS LONDON CALLING.
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THE GERMAN RADIO HAS JUST
ANNOUNCED THAT HITLER IS DEAD.
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Narrator: TWO DAYS LATER,
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WHEN THE RUSSIANS FINALLY
BROKE INTO HITLER'S BUNKER,
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THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE HOW THE
FUHRER HAD SPENT HIS FINAL DAYS,
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SURROUNDED BY OIL PAINTINGS
AND FINE FURNITURE.
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BUT NO TRACE OF HIS WILL
WAS FOUND.
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IT HAD ALREADY BEEN SMUGGLED
OUT OF BERLIN.
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IT'S BEEN ALMOST 70 YEARS
SINCE HERMAN ROTHMAN FIRST CAME
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TO THIS PART
OF NORTHERN GERMANY
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AS AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
IN THE BRITISH ARMY.
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Herman Rothman: I THOUGHT
I WOULD HAVE AN ODD FEELING.
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WE MUSTN'T FORGET IT WAS 1945.
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WE'RE NOW IN 2013.
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IT'S LIKE ENTERING
INTO SOMETHING NEW,
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WHICH I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
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Narrator: THIS WAS ONCE
A GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP,
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CALLED STALAG 11-B.
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ALMOST 100,000 ALLIED TROOPS
WERE INTERNED HERE.
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IN THE SUMMER OF 1945, THE CAMP
WAS IN THE HANDS OF THE ALLIES,
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PROCESSING CAPTURED GERMANS.
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ROTHMAN WAS PART OF A SPECIALIST
GERMAN-SPEAKING TEAM,
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TRAINED TO WEED OUT SS AND
NAZI OFFICERS ON THE RUN.
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Rothman:
WE DECIDED WHETHER PEOPLE ARE
GOING TO STAY IN THIS CAMP
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OR WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
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SOME WERE QUITE OPEN AND FRANK.
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SOME WERE NOT.
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SOME CONCEALED
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
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AND WE HAD TO MAKE UP OUR MIND
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WHETHER THEY WERE SPEAKING
THE TRUTH OR NOT.
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Narrator: ROTHMAN'S MOTIVATION
FOR FINDING NAZIS
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WAS STRONGER THAN MOST.
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Rothman: MY FATHER WAS TAKEN
TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP.
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AND ONCE I HEARD THAT,
I THINK I CRIED,
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BECAUSE I KNEW THAT I WOULDN'T
SEE MY FATHER AGAIN.
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A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF--
JEWISH REFUGEES--
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IT WAS OUR DESIRE TO SEE
THAT HITLER SHOULD BE BEATEN
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AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE,
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AND I JOINED THE ARMY.
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I WAS 18.
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Narrator: THEN HERMAN ROTHMAN'S
WORLD CHANGED
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WHEN HE RECEIVED
AN EARLY MORNING CALL
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FROM HIS COMMANDING OFFICER.
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Rothman: I REMEMBER
THAT I WAS WOKEN UP
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AT FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
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[ALARM CLOCK RINGS]
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I WAS TOLD THAT I MUST COME
IMMEDIATELY.
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I SAID, "WHAT'S SO URGENT?"
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AND HE SAID, "I CAN'T EXPLAIN
ANYTHING ON THE TELEPHONE!
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PLEASE COME IN."
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Narrator: ROTHMAN'S COLLEAGUES
HAD IDENTIFIED A GERMAN
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WHO THEY BELIEVED
WAS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
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THE MAN HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING TO
SELL A STORY TO THE NEWSPAPERS
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ABOUT HITLER'S LAST DAYS
IN THE BUNKER.
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A ROUTINE SEARCH HAD ALREADY
BEEN CARRIED OUT.
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BUT ONE OF ROTHMAN'S COLLEAGUES
WASN'T SATISFIED.
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Rothman: IN OUR UNIT,
THERE WAS A MAN
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WHO WAS A TAILOR BY PROFESSION.
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HE SAW IMMEDIATELY
THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG.
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THE SHOULDER PADS
DON'T LOOK RIGHT.
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AND HE RIPPED IT OPEN,
AND HE FOUND DOCUMENTS.
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IT'S DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE
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A REACTION WHICH ONE HAD
AT THE TIME.
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WE WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED
AT WHAT WAS DISCOVERED.
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WHEN WE SAW THE SIGNATURE
OF ADOLF HITLER,
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IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT THIS
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WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY
IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
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Narrator: ROTHMAN REALIZED
HE WAS LOOKING AT WHAT MIGHT BE
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THE FUHRER'S
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT.
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Rothman: WHAT I KNEW
BY INTERROGATING NAZIS,
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I HAD A PICTURE OF HITLER
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WHICH MADE ME THINK
IT WAS GENUINE.
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THE WAY HE SPOKE,
HE KEPT IN CHARACTER.
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Narrator: THE MAN'S NAME
WAS HEINZ LORENZ.
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A DEPUTY PRESS OFFICER
ON HITLER'S STAFF,
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HE'D BEEN ON THE RUN
FOR MORE THAN TWO MONTHS.
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HE CONFESSED THAT HE'D BEEN
ENTRUSTED BY HITLER
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TO SMUGGLE THE WILL
OUT OF THE BUNKER.
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Rothman: MY COMMANDING OFFICER
SAID PLEASE CLOSE ALL THE DOORS.
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CLOSE THE WINDOWS.
LOCK THEM.
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Narrator:
BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS,
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ROTHMAN AND THE REST OF THE TEAM
BEGIN TRANSLATING THE WILL.
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Rothman: IT WAS ON PARCHMENT.
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Narrator: HITLER'S CHARACTER
SHONE THROUGH.
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Rothman: IT WAS IN TWO SECTIONS.
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ONE WAS A PRIVATE ONE, IN WHICH
HE DISPOSED OF HIS GOODS,
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WHICH HE HAD VERY LITTLE OF,
APPARENTLY,
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AND GAVE IT BACK
TO THE GERMAN REICH,
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AND ON THE OTHER HAND
HE MADE A POLITICAL WILL,
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WHICH WAS OF COURSE A DIATRIBE
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AGAINST WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE WAR,
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WHICH WAS THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
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[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
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Narrator: THE RANT AGAINST
THE JEWS IN THE POLITICAL WILL
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IS FOLLOWED BY THE NAMING
OF A NEW NAZI GOVERNMENT.
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AND HITLER'S BRIEF
THREE-PAGE PRIVATE WILL
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DISGUISES THE FACT
THAT HE WAS A RICH MAN.
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Rothman:
I THINK THE PRIVATE WILL
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WAS ALSO FOR CONSUMPTION
TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
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HE WANTED TO SHOW
IN HIS PRIVATE WILL
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HE HAD VERY LITTLE.
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I ALWAYS FELT THAT HE THOUGHT
ABOUT IT VERY, VERY CLEARLY.
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"I WANTED TO SHOW THE PEOPLE
I HAD NO BENEFITS.
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MY LIFE WAS PURELY DEVOTED
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ENTIRELY TO THE WEALTH
OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE."
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AND THAT IS WHAT CAME,
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WAS EVIDENCED
BY READING THE PRIVATE WILL.
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[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
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Narrator:
HITLER LEAVES HIS POSSESSIONS,
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"IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE
WORTH ANYTHING,"
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TO THE NAZI PARTY.
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HE LEAVES HIS PAINTINGS--
"THE ONES BOUGHT BY ME"--
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TO WHAT HE CALLS
A "PICTURE GALLERY"
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IN HIS HOME TOWN OF LINZ.
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MARTIN BORMANN BECOMES
HIS SOLE EXECUTOR,
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WITH THE FULL LEGAL AUTHORITY
TO MAKE ALL DECISIONS
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RELATING TO PERSONAL MEMENTOS
AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY
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TO MAINTAIN THE PRESENT
STANDARD OF LIVING
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OF HITLER'S SIBLINGS,
MOTHER-IN-LAW
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AND FAITHFUL FELLOW WORKERS.
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Man: ADOLF HITLER.
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Narrator: READING ADOLF HITLER'S
WILL FOR THE FIRST TIME
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MADE HERMAN ROTHMAN
WANT TO KNOW MORE
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ABOUT THE MOTIVES OF THE MAN
WHO DICTATED IT.
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Rothman:
WHAT WAS THE REAL HITLER?
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WHAT MAKES THIS MAN TICK?
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HOW DID HE GET ALL THIS POWER...
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THIS IMMENSE POWER?
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HOW HE USED THE POWER.
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DID HE USE IT ENTIRELY
FOR THE GERMAN PEOPLE?
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WELL, SOME WILL SAY, THINK, YES.
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ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU'LL FIND
THAT PEOPLE WILL SAY NO.
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HE PROJECTED ONE IMAGE
TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE,
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AND THERE WAS A REAL HITLER.
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Narrator: AFTER THE WAR,
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THE "REAL HITLER"
WAS HARD TO FIND.
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WHATEVER HE LEFT BEHIND
IN THE FUHRER BUNKER
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WAS TAKEN BY THE RUSSIANS
OR SOUVENIR HUNTERS.
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THE ALLIES SEIZED
HIS MUNICH APARTMENT
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AND BOMBED HIS COUNTRY RESIDENCE
IN THE BAVARIAN MOUNTAINS.
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MOST OF HIS HUGE PERSONAL
ART COLLECTION WAS MISSING.
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AND THE MAN WHO KNEW HOW TO GET
HIS HANDS ON HITLER'S MONEY,
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MARTIN BORMANN, WAS FOUND DEAD
IN A BERLIN STREET
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TWO DAYS AFTER HIS BOSS
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
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FINALLY, IN 1948,
AN ALLIED DE-NAZIFICATION COURT
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VALUED HIS ENTIRE ESTATE
AT JUST 200,000 DEUTSCHMARKS--
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ROUGHLY $60,000.
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THE BAVARIAN STATE ARCHIVES
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KEEPS GERMAN ARTIFACTS
OF GREAT HISTORICAL VALUE,
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PARTICULARLY THOSE
FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
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DR. HELEN FRY IS A HISTORIAN
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WHO'S DISCOVERED THERE ARE
TRACES OF THE REAL HITLER
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TO BE FOUND,
IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK
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AND CAN GET PERMISSION...
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HIDDEN AWAY IN CARDBOARD BOXES.
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Helen Fry: AFTER HITLER'S DEATH,
A NUMBER OF HIS BELONGINGS
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WERE GATHERED
FROM DIFFERENT RESIDENCES
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ALL OVER GERMANY AND AUSTRIA.
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AND HERE, GOSH.
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THIS IS HIS GUN LICENSE.
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A VERY YOUNG HITLER HERE,
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AND HE'S ACTUALLY SIGNED
ACROSS THE PHOTOGRAPH.
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OH, LOOK.
HITLER WITH HIS MOTHER.
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THERE ARE RUMORS THAT THIS WAS
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A VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAL
PHOTOGRAPH FOR HIM.
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HE USED TO KEEP IT
AT ALL TIMES ON HIM.
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Narrator: KLARA HITLER
GAVE BIRTH TO SIX CHILDREN.
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ADOLF WAS ONE OF ONLY TWO
TO SURVIVE CHILDHOOD.
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THE OTHER WAS HIS SISTER, PAULA.
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HIS FATHER, ALOIS,
HAD BEEN MARRIED TWICE BEFORE,
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AND SO ADOLF ALREADY HAD
AN OLDER HALF BROTHER AND SISTER
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WHEN HE WAS BORN IN APRIL 1889.
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Fry: AH, NOW HERE
WE HAVE A DOCUMENT.
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Narrator: IN THIS BOX
THERE ARE MORE
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THAN JUST PERSONAL
AND FAMILY MEMENTOS.
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Fry: THIS IS HIS ORIGINAL...
WELL, FIRST WILL. 1938.
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Narrator:
HITLER HAD SET OUT PLANS
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FOR THE DISTRIBUTION
OF HIS WEALTH ONCE BEFORE...
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WRITTEN IN HIS OWN HAND,
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00:14:06,259 --> 00:14:10,642
AT THE AGE OF 50 WHEN HE WAS
ALREADY RULING GERMANY.
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00:14:10,677 --> 00:14:14,232
HITLER WAS CONVINCED HE WOULD
DIE YOUNG FROM A MAJOR ILLNESS,
235
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JUST AS BOTH HIS PARENTS HAD
WHILE HE WAS STILL A CHILD.
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00:14:20,238 --> 00:14:22,275
BUT UNLIKE HIS FINAL WILL,
237
00:14:22,309 --> 00:14:25,071
THIS ONE GIVES MUCH MORE
FINANCIAL DETAIL.
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00:14:25,105 --> 00:14:29,696
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
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IT NAMES HIS HEIRS
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AND EXACTLY HOW MUCH
HE WISHES TO LEAVE EACH.
241
00:14:39,119 --> 00:14:40,707
Fry: THIS IS HITLER THE MAN.
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00:14:40,741 --> 00:14:42,640
YOU KNOW, HE'S LEAVING
ORDINARY POSSESSIONS,
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A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY
TO HIS SISTER,
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HIS STEP-BROTHER,
HIS HOUSEKEEPER.
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00:14:47,956 --> 00:14:51,235
Narrator: HE LEFT HIS SISTER,
PAULA, 1,000 MARKS A MONTH.
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EQUAL TO $650 BACK THEN.
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HAD HITLER DIED IN 1938,
IN THE FIRST YEAR ALONE
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HIS ESTATE WOULD HAVE HAD
TO PAY OUT NEARLY $60,000...
249
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OVER A MILLION DOLLARS
IN TODAY'S MONEY.
250
00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:06,457
[HITLER ORATING]
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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Fry: OH, HERE,
HITLER THE ARTIST.
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00:15:14,258 --> 00:15:16,708
Narrator: BUT HITLER
WAS NOT ALWAYS RICH.
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IN FACT, HE WAS ONCE
VERY POOR...
255
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SELLING HIS OWN DRAWINGS ON
POSTCARDS FOR JUST A FEW CENTS.
256
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HOMELESS AND HUNGRY,
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HE GAVE UP HIS ARTISTIC CAREER
AND FASHIONED A NEW IMAGE.
258
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Cris Whetton: IMAGE WAS
VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM.
259
00:15:36,073 --> 00:15:37,833
HE TOOK ACTING LESSONS,
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00:15:37,867 --> 00:15:42,148
HE TOOK SPEAKING LESSONS
FROM PROFESSIONALS,
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HOW TO PRESENT HIMSELF ON STAGE.
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PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN
SO THAT HE COULD VIEW HIMSELF
263
00:15:47,601 --> 00:15:50,604
AND DECIDE JUST HOW TO BE.
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IT WAS THE IMAGE OF POWER.
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[SPEAKING GERMAN]
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Crowd: HEIL! HEIL! HEIL!
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[SPEAKING GERMAN]
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Narrator: HITLER STYLED HIMSELF
AS THE PEOPLE'S LEADER.
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Crowd: SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!
SIEG HEIL!
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Narrator: HE QUICKLY REALIZED
THE MONEY-MAKING POTENTIAL
271
00:16:14,697 --> 00:16:16,423
OF PERSONAL APPEARANCES
272
00:16:16,458 --> 00:16:20,462
AND, RIGHT FROM THE START,
MISLED HIS FOLLOWERS.
273
00:16:24,052 --> 00:16:28,056
Whetton: HIS NOTEPAPER
IS VERY PRETENTIOUSLY LABELED,
274
00:16:28,090 --> 00:16:32,025
"FROM THE CHANCELLERY
OF ADOLF HITLER."
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THIS IS, WE'RE TALKING 1920s,
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00:16:34,890 --> 00:16:37,962
BEFORE HE'D COME
ANYWHERE NEAR POWER.
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00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:42,242
HE USED TO SAY THAT HE TOOK
NO FEES FOR HIS SPEECHES.
278
00:16:42,277 --> 00:16:44,037
OH, YEAH?
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00:16:44,072 --> 00:16:46,902
HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE
A BANK ACCOUNT,
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00:16:46,936 --> 00:16:49,629
AND YET UNDERNEATH
THE CHANCELLERY,
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00:16:49,663 --> 00:16:51,286
ON THE NOTEPAPER,
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IT GIVES YOU
HIS BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER.
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00:16:55,842 --> 00:16:58,017
Narrator: CRIS WHETTON
IS A BRITISH AUTHOR
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00:16:58,051 --> 00:16:59,915
WHO HAS SPENT A DECADE
TRYING TO WORK OUT
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00:16:59,949 --> 00:17:03,712
WHAT HITLER WAS WORTH
WHEN HE DIED.
286
00:17:03,746 --> 00:17:06,853
Whetton: LET'S TRY TO TALK
IN TODAY'S FIGURES.
287
00:17:06,887 --> 00:17:13,686
I WOULD SAY, FOR HIS LIFESTYLE,
THAT HE WAS PROBABLY PUSHING
288
00:17:13,722 --> 00:17:18,451
30,000 TO 50,000 EUROS A YEAR.
289
00:17:18,484 --> 00:17:21,316
BUT BY THE TIME WE GET TO 1944,
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00:17:21,349 --> 00:17:25,078
HE'S DEFINITELY IN THE BILLIONS
OF REICHSMARKS,
291
00:17:25,113 --> 00:17:29,565
WHICH WOULD NOT BE FAR OFF
BILLIONS OF EUROS TODAY.
292
00:17:31,912 --> 00:17:34,225
Narrator: HITLER SET
THE FOUNDATION FOR HIS BILLIONS
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00:17:34,260 --> 00:17:36,641
WAY BACK IN 1923,
294
00:17:36,676 --> 00:17:38,816
WHEN HE WAS SENT TO PRISON
FOR NINE MONTHS
295
00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:41,646
FOR TRYING TO OVERTHROW
THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT.
296
00:17:44,270 --> 00:17:46,548
WHILE INSIDE, HE WROTE THE BOOK
297
00:17:46,582 --> 00:17:50,241
WHICH WAS TO BECOME THE BASIS
OF HIS FORTUNE--
298
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"MEIN KAMPF."
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00:17:52,761 --> 00:17:54,763
PUBLISHED IN 1924,
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00:17:54,797 --> 00:17:58,801
HITLER RECEIVED A 10% ROYALTY
FROM EVERY SALE.
301
00:18:01,494 --> 00:18:04,807
BUT IT TOOK A WHILE
TO GET GOING.
302
00:18:04,842 --> 00:18:06,292
Pascal Trees: CONCERNING
THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS
303
00:18:06,326 --> 00:18:08,121
OF "MEIN KAMPF,"
THERE ARE MANY OF THEM.
304
00:18:08,156 --> 00:18:11,676
I JUST PICKED OUT SOME
TO GIVE YOU A GENERAL IDEA.
305
00:18:11,711 --> 00:18:13,437
I BROUGHT ALONG
THE VERY FIRST EDITION,
306
00:18:13,471 --> 00:18:16,060
WHICH APPEARED IN TWO VOLUMES.
307
00:18:16,095 --> 00:18:19,546
IT WAS PRETTY EXPENSIVE
AT THE TIME. 10, 12 MARKS.
308
00:18:19,581 --> 00:18:23,688
THIS WAS A LOT TO DEAL WITH
DURING THE EARLY 1920s.
309
00:18:23,723 --> 00:18:27,347
AND THEY SOLD SO-SO.
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00:18:27,382 --> 00:18:30,143
TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK,
IT'S NOT EXACTLY A GOOD READ.
311
00:18:30,178 --> 00:18:36,667
SO LATER ON THEY GOT THIS IDEA
TO PRODUCE A POPULAR VERSION.
312
00:18:39,221 --> 00:18:44,640
Narrator: THE POPULAR VERSION
CHANGED HITLER'S FORTUNES.
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00:18:44,675 --> 00:18:46,815
AS SOON AS THE MONEY
STARTED TO ROLL IN,
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HITLER RAISED
HIS STANDARD OF LIVING.
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HE BOUGHT HIMSELF
A LUXURY MERCEDES...
316
00:18:53,891 --> 00:18:58,585
AND CAME UP WITH THE IDEA THAT
WOULD MAKE HIM EVEN RICHER.
317
00:18:58,620 --> 00:19:00,622
[BELLS RINGING]
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00:19:00,656 --> 00:19:04,177
WHEN HITLER WAS ELECTED
CHANCELLOR IN 1933,
319
00:19:04,212 --> 00:19:08,216
NEWLYWED GERMAN COUPLES WOULD
GET A FREE COPY OF "MEIN KAMPF."
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00:19:08,250 --> 00:19:10,183
Whetton: OF COURSE THERE WERE
A LOT OF MARRIAGES.
321
00:19:10,218 --> 00:19:12,116
THERE ALWAYS ARE.
322
00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:15,568
AND THEY ALL HAD TO BE PAID FOR
BY THE STATE.
323
00:19:15,602 --> 00:19:17,052
SO THE STATE BOUGHT THE BOOKS
324
00:19:17,086 --> 00:19:20,849
TO PRESENT TO EVERY WED,
MARRIED COUPLE,
325
00:19:20,883 --> 00:19:23,990
AND HITLER REAPED THE PROFITS.
326
00:19:27,925 --> 00:19:30,548
Narrator: AT ITS PEAK,
"MEIN KAMPF" WAS EARNING HITLER
327
00:19:30,583 --> 00:19:33,586
$1 MILLION A YEAR
IN ROYALTIES ALONE...
328
00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:36,830
EQUIVALENT TO $12 MILLION TODAY.
329
00:19:36,865 --> 00:19:38,591
BY THE TIME THE WAR ENDED,
330
00:19:38,625 --> 00:19:42,491
NEARLY TEN MILLION COPIES OF
"MEIN KAMPF" HAD BEEN PRINTED,
331
00:19:42,526 --> 00:19:44,079
AND HITLER ONCE BOASTED
332
00:19:44,113 --> 00:19:48,359
THAT HIS BOOK WAS ONLY OUTSOLD
BY THE BIBLE.
333
00:19:48,394 --> 00:19:50,603
Whetton: HE LOVED MONEY
ALL THE TIME.
334
00:19:50,637 --> 00:19:54,538
HE JUST WASN'T PREPARED
TO DO MUCH WORK FOR IT.
335
00:19:54,572 --> 00:19:55,780
HE LIKED HAVING IT.
336
00:19:55,815 --> 00:19:59,198
IT GAVE HIM THE FREEDOM
TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTED.
337
00:19:59,232 --> 00:20:01,338
Narrator: WHATEVER HE WANTED
WASN'T ENOUGH.
338
00:20:01,372 --> 00:20:05,376
IN 1938 HE OWED
400,000 DEUTSCHMARKS IN TAX...
339
00:20:05,411 --> 00:20:09,622
$120,000 BACK THEN.
340
00:20:09,656 --> 00:20:12,866
Whetton: HE FELT THAT
PAYING TAXES WAS BENEATH HIM.
341
00:20:12,901 --> 00:20:17,077
BY THE TIME HE'S BECOME
CHANCELLOR, THE AUTHORITIES,
342
00:20:17,112 --> 00:20:20,253
PRESUMABLY WITH A LITTLE BIT
OF PRESSURE, SAID, UH,
343
00:20:20,288 --> 00:20:22,704
WE THINK IT'S REASONABLE
THAT AS CHANCELLOR
344
00:20:22,738 --> 00:20:25,258
HERR HITLER SHOULD NOT PAY TAX,
345
00:20:25,293 --> 00:20:28,641
AND THEREFORE WE WILL TAKE
ALL OF HIS TAX PAPERS,
346
00:20:28,675 --> 00:20:31,989
AND THEY WILL BE DESTROYED.
347
00:20:32,023 --> 00:20:33,887
WELL, THEY WEREN'T.
348
00:20:33,922 --> 00:20:36,476
THEY WERE LOCKED AWAY IN A SAFE.
349
00:20:36,511 --> 00:20:39,030
CONSCIENTIOUS CIVIL SERVANTS.
350
00:20:39,065 --> 00:20:46,762
AND HERE IS A COPY
FROM 1925 THROUGH TO 1933.
351
00:20:46,797 --> 00:20:50,214
A LOT OF THE THINGS
HE JUST PUT A LINE THROUGH.
352
00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:54,908
LOOK, EVERYTHING DASHED OUT.
BLANK. BLANK.
353
00:20:54,943 --> 00:20:57,842
THE TAX AUTHORITIES,
THEY ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW
354
00:20:57,877 --> 00:20:59,672
WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE COLLECTIONS,
355
00:20:59,706 --> 00:21:03,676
THE ADMISSION FEES FOR
THE MEETINGS THAT HE SPOKE AT.
356
00:21:03,710 --> 00:21:05,988
AND HE WOULD SAY,
"I DON'T KNOW,
357
00:21:06,023 --> 00:21:07,335
IT DOESN'T COME TO ME!"
358
00:21:07,369 --> 00:21:10,061
IT GOES TO THE NATIONAL
SOCIALIST PARTY.
359
00:21:10,096 --> 00:21:12,305
Hitler: SIEG HEIL!
360
00:21:12,340 --> 00:21:17,172
SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!
361
00:21:17,206 --> 00:21:20,106
Narrator: HITLER WAS ALSO
SECRETLY INVESTING HIS MONEY
362
00:21:20,140 --> 00:21:23,178
IN A PROPERTY EMPIRE.
363
00:21:23,212 --> 00:21:26,250
HE HAD A LUXURY APARTMENT
IN THE CENTER OF MUNICH
364
00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:31,117
AND ALSO AN INTEREST IN A VILLA
USED BY HIS MISTRESS, EVA BRAUN.
365
00:21:34,154 --> 00:21:37,054
BUT HIS REAL HOME,
AND MOST VALUABLE ASSET,
366
00:21:37,088 --> 00:21:41,990
WAS IN A FAR MORE DESIRABLE
LOCATION.
367
00:21:42,024 --> 00:21:44,889
SINCE THE EARLY 1920s,
HITLER HOLIDAYED
368
00:21:44,924 --> 00:21:47,823
NEAR THE ALPINE VILLAGE
OF BERCHTESGADEN,
369
00:21:47,858 --> 00:21:49,515
ON THE SOUTHERN TIP OF GERMANY,
370
00:21:49,549 --> 00:21:51,862
CLOSE TO THE BORDER
WITH AUSTRIA.
371
00:21:55,141 --> 00:21:58,972
Whetton: HE FELL IN LOVE
WITH BERCHTESGADEN AREA.
372
00:21:59,007 --> 00:22:03,529
IT WAS HIS AMBITION TO GET
A HOUSE THERE, WHICH HE DID.
373
00:22:03,563 --> 00:22:05,324
THERE'S A LOT OF DOCUMENTATION
374
00:22:05,358 --> 00:22:08,361
ABOUT THE PROPERTY
AROUND THE OBERSALZBERG,
375
00:22:08,396 --> 00:22:11,847
PARTICULARLY THIS ONE FROM 1937.
376
00:22:11,882 --> 00:22:14,712
AND HERE WE SEE
THE HAUS WACHENFELD
377
00:22:14,747 --> 00:22:17,646
AS IT WAS WHEN HITLER BOUGHT IT.
378
00:22:17,681 --> 00:22:22,962
AND WE HAVE THE PRICE HERE,
40,000 GOLDMARKS.
379
00:22:22,996 --> 00:22:25,240
AND HE SLOWLY ENLARGED IT.
380
00:22:25,274 --> 00:22:29,071
HE WAS VERY, VERY PROUD OF IT.
381
00:22:29,106 --> 00:22:31,729
Narrator: HITLER CALLED HIS HOME
THE BERGHOF.
382
00:22:31,764 --> 00:22:34,698
30 ROOMS FILLED
WITH EXPENSIVE FURNITURE...
383
00:22:34,732 --> 00:22:36,769
RARE PERSIAN CARPETS,
384
00:22:36,803 --> 00:22:38,046
TAPESTRIES,
385
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,326
AND PAINTINGS BY DUTCH, ITALIAN
AND GERMAN MASTERS.
386
00:22:43,741 --> 00:22:46,537
TABLE SILVER ENGRAVED
WITH THE INITIALS A.H.
387
00:22:46,572 --> 00:22:51,646
AND STAMPED WITH THE GERMAN
EAGLE AND NAZI SWASTIKA.
388
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,926
AND THERE WERE OTHER CHANGES,
BY HIS OWN HAND...
389
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,274
BUT NOT ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL.
390
00:22:59,308 --> 00:23:02,035
Whetton: HE FANCIED HIMSELF
AS AN ARCHITECT,
391
00:23:02,070 --> 00:23:06,661
ALTHOUGH HE HAD
NO FORMAL TRAINING WHATSOEVER.
392
00:23:06,695 --> 00:23:10,492
AND HE WENT AHEAD TO MODIFY
THE HOUSE HIMSELF
393
00:23:10,527 --> 00:23:14,772
TO SUIT HIS GRANDIOSE VISION.
394
00:23:14,807 --> 00:23:18,742
HE HAD THIS HUGE PICTURE WINDOW,
395
00:23:18,776 --> 00:23:21,538
AND RIGHT UNDERNEATH IT
WAS THE GARAGE.
396
00:23:21,572 --> 00:23:24,333
SO ANY TIME ANYBODY
STARTED A CAR IN THE GARAGE,
397
00:23:24,368 --> 00:23:26,474
UP CAME THE FUMES
FROM THE EXHAUST
398
00:23:26,508 --> 00:23:29,546
STRAIGHT THROUGH
THE OPEN PICTURE WINDOW.
399
00:23:38,347 --> 00:23:40,384
Narrator: THE BERGHOF
WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLACES
400
00:23:40,419 --> 00:23:43,042
HITLER COULD RELAX
WITH EVA BRAUN.
401
00:23:45,631 --> 00:23:47,287
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING,
402
00:23:47,322 --> 00:23:49,013
HE HAD TRIED TO KEEP
THEIR RELATIONSHIP
403
00:23:49,048 --> 00:23:51,464
A SECRET FROM THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
404
00:23:53,708 --> 00:23:55,882
WE ARE ONLY ABLE
TO SEE THIS TODAY
405
00:23:55,917 --> 00:23:59,127
BECAUSE EVA BRAUN
WAS A HOME MOVIE FANATIC,
406
00:23:59,161 --> 00:24:04,339
AND NO ONE DARED STOP HER
FROM FILMING OR BEING FILMED.
407
00:24:07,722 --> 00:24:11,864
HITLER SPENT MORE AND MORE TIME
AT THE BERGHOF,
408
00:24:11,898 --> 00:24:15,039
SURROUNDED BY LOYAL HENCHMEN,
409
00:24:15,074 --> 00:24:18,974
BARELY RECOGNIZABLE
WITHOUT THEIR NAZI UNIFORMS.
410
00:24:22,184 --> 00:24:25,843
Whetton: AND WE SEE HERE
ON THE MAP, POINT 16--
411
00:24:25,878 --> 00:24:28,501
POINT 16, THIS WAS
HAUS WACHENFELD,
412
00:24:28,536 --> 00:24:30,572
WHICH BECAME THE BERGHOF.
413
00:24:30,607 --> 00:24:34,852
BUT BY 1944,
ALL OF THESE BLUE DOTS,
414
00:24:34,887 --> 00:24:38,684
EACH ONE HAVING SOMETHING TO DO
WITH HITLER AND THE NAZI PARTY.
415
00:24:38,718 --> 00:24:42,619
THE HANGERS-ON--
GOEBBELS, GORING, SPEER--
416
00:24:42,653 --> 00:24:46,933
PLUS SS BARRACKS,
ANTI-AIRCRAFT EMPLACEMENTS,
417
00:24:46,968 --> 00:24:49,522
AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
418
00:24:49,557 --> 00:24:51,766
Narrator: EVENTUALLY
HITLER'S MOUNTAIN RETREAT
419
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:56,149
BECAME THE UNOFFICIAL
SECOND SEAT OF THE THIRD REICH.
420
00:24:57,944 --> 00:25:01,672
HITLER WASN'T JUST FOCUSED
ON MILITARY VICTORY.
421
00:25:01,707 --> 00:25:06,021
HE WAS ALSO FIGHTING
A DIRTY CULTURAL WAR.
422
00:25:06,056 --> 00:25:08,852
Godfrey Barker: HITLER, THE MAN
WHO WANTED TO RULE THE WORLD,
423
00:25:08,886 --> 00:25:11,061
IS ONLY THE PUBLIC FACE.
424
00:25:11,095 --> 00:25:12,856
THE PRIVATE MAN IS SOMETHING
425
00:25:12,890 --> 00:25:15,375
THAT FEW PEOPLE
SEEM TO UNDERSTAND.
426
00:25:15,410 --> 00:25:19,690
HIS BEATING HEART
WAS ALL TO DO WITH ART,
427
00:25:19,725 --> 00:25:22,797
ON WHICH HE HAD
STRONG JUDGMENTS.
428
00:25:22,831 --> 00:25:27,802
HE HELD DINNER PARTIES
AT BERCHTESGADEN
429
00:25:27,836 --> 00:25:32,979
IN WHICH THE ARTS WERE FREELY
DISCUSSED WITH VISITING GENERALS
430
00:25:33,014 --> 00:25:35,223
AND NOT A WORD IS SPOKEN
431
00:25:35,257 --> 00:25:41,263
ABOUT THE BLOOD SPILLED
IN CAMPS WITHIN 50 MILES.
432
00:25:41,298 --> 00:25:45,302
DACHAU, THE VILLAGE
SOUTH OF MUNICH WHICH HOUSED
433
00:25:45,336 --> 00:25:48,270
ONE OF THE FILTHIEST
OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
434
00:25:48,305 --> 00:25:51,550
WAS ALSO A PLACE
WHERE HITLER HOUSED ART.
435
00:25:51,584 --> 00:25:54,553
SOMEHOW THIS
SCHIZOPHRENIC PERSON
436
00:25:54,587 --> 00:25:58,349
MANAGED TO LIVE
IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS.
437
00:25:58,384 --> 00:26:03,907
Narrator:
GODFREY BARKER IS AN EXPERT
ON HITLER THE ART LOVER.
438
00:26:03,941 --> 00:26:05,736
Barker: HITLER WAS AN ARTIST.
439
00:26:05,771 --> 00:26:10,499
HE LEAVES BEHIND
ABOUT 2,300 WATERCOLORS,
440
00:26:10,534 --> 00:26:15,263
MOSTLY OF FINE CLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS.
441
00:26:15,297 --> 00:26:16,436
THEY'RE METICULOUS.
442
00:26:16,471 --> 00:26:18,611
THEY'RE WELL EXECUTED,
443
00:26:18,646 --> 00:26:22,788
BUT THEY'RE INVARIABLY
WOODEN AND LIFELESS.
444
00:26:24,893 --> 00:26:29,588
Narrator: HITLER BECAME
AN ART COLLECTOR IN THE 1930s.
445
00:26:29,622 --> 00:26:32,211
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
446
00:26:32,245 --> 00:26:34,662
IN HIS WILL,
HE LEAVES HIS PAINTINGS
447
00:26:34,696 --> 00:26:37,526
FOR TO AN AS-YET-UNBUILT
FUHRER MUSEUM
448
00:26:37,561 --> 00:26:40,357
IN HIS HOMETOWN OF LINZ
IN AUSTRIA.
449
00:26:40,391 --> 00:26:44,844
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
450
00:26:44,879 --> 00:26:46,605
Barker: BY THE END OF THE WAR
451
00:26:46,639 --> 00:26:50,747
HE'D GATHERED 8,500 PAINTINGS
FOR THIS PURPOSE.
452
00:26:50,781 --> 00:26:53,473
THAT AROUSED MY INTEREST.
453
00:26:55,993 --> 00:26:57,685
Narrator:
HITLER AND HIS FELLOW NAZIS
454
00:26:57,719 --> 00:27:02,137
WERE ART COLLECTORS
ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE.
455
00:27:02,172 --> 00:27:04,968
THE WHOLE OF EUROPE
WAS AT THEIR MERCY.
456
00:27:05,002 --> 00:27:07,833
WHAT THEY LIKED, THEY TOOK.
457
00:27:07,867 --> 00:27:10,767
BUT THE FUHRER WAS AN EXCEPTION.
458
00:27:10,801 --> 00:27:16,186
HE NOT ONLY STOLE, HE ALSO
USED HIS OWN MONEY TO BUY.
459
00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:22,537
Whetton: I HAD EXPECTED TO FIND
THAT HE WAS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE
460
00:27:22,571 --> 00:27:26,921
FOR LOOTING AND STEALING
OF PAINTINGS
461
00:27:26,955 --> 00:27:28,785
THAT HE WANTED FOR HIMSELF,
462
00:27:28,819 --> 00:27:31,166
AND I COULDN'T FIND
ANY EVIDENCE FOR IT.
463
00:27:31,201 --> 00:27:34,445
I FOUND EVIDENCE
THAT HE PAID FOR THEM.
464
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,658
SOMETIMES AT KNOCKDOWN PRICES,
BUT NOT DIRECT THEFT IN ANY WAY.
465
00:27:39,692 --> 00:27:41,521
I WAS QUITE SURPRISED BY THIS.
466
00:27:41,556 --> 00:27:44,628
AND I HAVE TO SAY IN ALL HONESTY
THAT'S WHAT I FOUND.
467
00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,872
DIDN'T EXPECT IT, BUT I DID.
468
00:27:50,565 --> 00:27:51,946
Narrator:
WHEN THE ALLIES STARTED TO LOOK
469
00:27:51,980 --> 00:27:54,880
FOR HITLER'S ART COLLECTION
AFTER HIS DEATH,
470
00:27:54,914 --> 00:27:57,641
THEY COULDN'T FIND MOST OF IT.
471
00:27:57,676 --> 00:27:59,954
NOR COULD THEY TRACE
THE VAST ART HAUL
472
00:27:59,988 --> 00:28:02,473
STOLEN BY HIS FELLOW NAZIS.
473
00:28:02,508 --> 00:28:05,580
IT WAS IF IT HAD BEEN
SPIRITED AWAY.
474
00:28:09,066 --> 00:28:10,930
THE AUSTRIAN VILLAGE
OF ALTAUSSEE
475
00:28:10,965 --> 00:28:13,484
LIES CLOSE TO THE SOUTHERN
GERMAN BORDER,
476
00:28:13,519 --> 00:28:19,421
50 MILES FROM HITLER'S HOUSE
IN BERCHTESGADEN.
477
00:28:19,456 --> 00:28:23,771
IN APRIL AND MAY 1945,
AS THE THIRD REICH CRUMBLED,
478
00:28:23,805 --> 00:28:28,016
IT WAS OVERRUN BY NAZIS
LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE TO HIDE.
479
00:28:30,191 --> 00:28:33,746
BUT IT ALSO HARBORED
ANOTHER SECRET.
480
00:28:33,781 --> 00:28:35,610
DEEP INSIDE THE MOUNTAINS,
481
00:28:35,644 --> 00:28:38,509
40 MILES OF TUNNELS,
ON 18 LEVELS,
482
00:28:38,544 --> 00:28:40,304
HAD BEEN CARVED OUT BY MINERS
483
00:28:40,339 --> 00:28:43,549
EXTRACTING SALT
FROM THE LIMESTONE ROCK.
484
00:28:47,691 --> 00:28:52,972
MANY OF THESE CHAMBERS DATE BACK
OVER A THOUSAND YEARS.
485
00:28:53,007 --> 00:28:56,251
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
486
00:28:56,286 --> 00:28:58,806
Helmut Kalss, translated: SALT
HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT
487
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,361
AND HAS GIVEN THE COMMUNITY
AN IDENTITY.
488
00:29:02,395 --> 00:29:06,399
THIS HAS LED TO UPROARS AGAINST
AUTHORITY SINCE THE MIDDLE AGES.
489
00:29:08,505 --> 00:29:10,714
Narrator: HELMUT KALSS
IS A LEADING AUTHORITY
490
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:12,681
ON THE ALTAUSSEE SALT MINE,
491
00:29:12,716 --> 00:29:16,271
WHICH WAS USED BY THE NAZIS
TO STORE ART.
492
00:29:16,306 --> 00:29:20,620
THEY WERE INSPIRED BY A MINERS'
CHAPEL DEEP BELOW GROUND.
493
00:29:24,383 --> 00:29:28,421
Kalss: IN THE CHAPEL THERE WERE
PAINTINGS FOR MANY YEARS,
494
00:29:28,456 --> 00:29:30,492
AND THEY WERE WELL PRESERVED.
495
00:29:30,527 --> 00:29:34,565
SO YOU REALIZE THAT THIS MIGHT
BE A GREAT PLACE TO STORE ART.
496
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,053
THE WOOD IS FROM 1943,
AND IT STILL LOOKS NEW.
497
00:29:42,504 --> 00:29:46,819
Narrator: THE 1943 WOOD
IS SHELVING PUT IN BY THE NAZIS
498
00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:50,789
TO STORE MORE THAN 12,000
WORKS OF ART.
499
00:29:53,861 --> 00:29:58,072
BUT WHEN AMERICAN FORCES ARRIVED
A MONTH AFTER HITLER'S DEATH,
500
00:29:58,106 --> 00:30:02,248
THE ENTRANCE TO THE MINE
HAD BEEN BLOWN UP.
501
00:30:02,283 --> 00:30:03,836
Kalss: THE GERMAN COMMANDER
IN THE REGION
502
00:30:03,871 --> 00:30:06,425
GAVE THE ORDER
TO DESTROY EVERYTHING.
503
00:30:09,014 --> 00:30:10,222
Narrator: THE U.S. ARMY SENT IN
504
00:30:10,256 --> 00:30:12,880
A SPECIALIST MILITARY
FINE ARTS UNIT,
505
00:30:12,914 --> 00:30:16,953
WHO BECAME KNOWN
AS "THE MONUMENTS MEN."
506
00:30:16,987 --> 00:30:18,368
THEY DISCOVERED THE BOMBS
507
00:30:18,402 --> 00:30:21,509
HAD NOT DAMAGED
ANY OF THE TREASURES.
508
00:30:27,791 --> 00:30:30,242
BY THE TIME THEY HAD EMPTIED
THE MINE,
509
00:30:30,276 --> 00:30:32,347
THEY HAD FILLED 80 TRUCKLOADS
510
00:30:32,382 --> 00:30:37,180
AND RECOVERED ART WORTH
MORE THAN $3.5 BILLION.
511
00:30:43,669 --> 00:30:46,534
BUT IT TURNS OUT
THE REAL HEROES OF ALTAUSSEE
512
00:30:46,568 --> 00:30:48,018
WERE THE MINEWORKERS,
513
00:30:48,053 --> 00:30:51,642
WHO HAVE A LONG TRADITION
OF RESISTING AUTHORITY.
514
00:30:53,541 --> 00:30:55,508
Kalss: I BELIEVE
FROM THIS TRADITION
515
00:30:55,543 --> 00:30:58,270
THERE WAS A RESISTANCE
TO HITLER.
516
00:30:58,304 --> 00:31:01,238
THERE WERE BOMBS IN BOXES HERE.
517
00:31:01,273 --> 00:31:04,966
THE MINEWORKERS
CARRIED THE BOXES OUT.
518
00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:08,245
THEY JUST DESTROYED
THE ENTRANCE OF THE MINE,
519
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,834
AND THE ARTWORKS WERE SAVED.
520
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,803
Narrator: WHAT THE MONUMENTS MEN
DIDN'T REALIZE
521
00:31:14,838 --> 00:31:18,048
IS THAT THEY HAD NOT ONLY
RECOVERED NAZI LOOTED TREASURE,
522
00:31:18,083 --> 00:31:22,708
BUT ALSO HITLER'S MISSING
"PAID FOR" ART COLLECTION.
523
00:31:22,742 --> 00:31:25,953
AT THE TIME, NO ONE CARED.
524
00:31:25,987 --> 00:31:28,852
Whetton: THEY SWEPT EVERYTHING
INTO ONE CLEARING CENTER
525
00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:31,303
IN, I THINK IT WAS IN KOBLENZ.
526
00:31:31,337 --> 00:31:32,718
AND THERE EVERYTHING
GOT MIXED UP.
527
00:31:32,752 --> 00:31:36,929
IT DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE BEEN
PROPERLY DOCUMENTED.
528
00:31:36,964 --> 00:31:38,724
AND THEN IT WAS DECIDED
529
00:31:38,758 --> 00:31:40,933
IF IT DOESN'T BELONG
TO THE FRENCH
530
00:31:40,968 --> 00:31:43,384
OR RUSSIA DOESN'T
STAKE A CLAIM FOR IT,
531
00:31:43,418 --> 00:31:45,696
THEN THEY GAVE IT BACK
TO THE STATES
532
00:31:45,731 --> 00:31:48,044
OF AUSTRIA OR GERMANY,
533
00:31:48,078 --> 00:31:51,633
FROM WHICHEVER COUNTRY
IT MIGHT HAVE COME FROM.
534
00:31:54,222 --> 00:31:56,638
Narrator: WITH HIS PERSONAL
ART COLLECTION SCATTERED
535
00:31:56,673 --> 00:31:59,262
AND HIS PROPERTY EMPIRE
IN RUINS,
536
00:31:59,296 --> 00:32:02,334
THE ALLIES GAVE THE GERMAN
RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES
537
00:32:02,368 --> 00:32:03,335
OF "MEIN KAMPF"
538
00:32:03,369 --> 00:32:04,957
TO THE STATE OF BAVARIA,
539
00:32:04,992 --> 00:32:08,064
LEAVING LITTLE
OF ANY REAL VALUE.
540
00:32:08,098 --> 00:32:09,789
THIS IS HOW THEY CAME
TO CALCULATE
541
00:32:09,824 --> 00:32:13,828
THE WORTH OF HIS ESTATE
AT ONLY $60,000.
542
00:32:13,862 --> 00:32:15,657
BUT, AS THE FILE
ON HITLER'S RICHES
543
00:32:15,692 --> 00:32:18,453
WAS SEEMINGLY CLOSED IN 1948,
544
00:32:18,488 --> 00:32:20,593
AMERICA'S SECRET
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES
545
00:32:20,628 --> 00:32:25,322
ALREADY KNEW THIS WAS BY
NO MEANS THE COMPLETE PICTURE.
546
00:32:25,357 --> 00:32:28,567
THIS RARELY SEEN, PREVIOUSLY
CLASSIFIED REPORT,
547
00:32:28,601 --> 00:32:30,983
BY AMERICA'S OFFICE
FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES,
548
00:32:31,018 --> 00:32:32,916
THE PRECURSOR OF THE CIA,
549
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:37,196
REVEALS THAT, AS EARLY AS 1944,
THE OSS KNEW
550
00:32:37,231 --> 00:32:42,098
THAT HITLER HAD ACCESS
TO A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CASH.
551
00:32:42,132 --> 00:32:45,584
IN A SECRET OPERATION,
CODENAMED "SAFEHAVEN,"
552
00:32:45,618 --> 00:32:50,106
THEY FOUND SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS
HOLDING 45 MILLION REICHSMARKS,
553
00:32:50,140 --> 00:32:53,281
INCLUDING ONE CONTROLLED
BY HITLER'S BUSINESS MANAGER,
554
00:32:53,316 --> 00:32:55,111
MAX AMANN,
555
00:32:55,145 --> 00:32:59,978
CONTAINING THE FOREIGN ROYALTIES
FROM "MEIN KAMPF."
556
00:33:00,012 --> 00:33:01,876
AMANN WAS OFFICIALLY THE OWNER
557
00:33:01,910 --> 00:33:06,087
OF THE NAZI PUBLISHING HOUSE
WHICH CHURNED OUT "MEIN KAMPF."
558
00:33:06,122 --> 00:33:10,505
HE WAS ALSO THE SOLE GUARDIAN
OF THE FUHRER'S MONEY.
559
00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:13,543
Whetton: HE HAD
A FOUL PERSONALITY.
560
00:33:13,577 --> 00:33:16,097
BUT HE WAS A GOOD MANAGER.
561
00:33:16,132 --> 00:33:19,031
AND IT WAS HE WHO CAME UP
WITH THE NAME "MEIN KAMPF,"
562
00:33:19,066 --> 00:33:20,860
NOT HITLER.
563
00:33:20,895 --> 00:33:23,277
ONLY AMANN SAW THE BOOKS.
564
00:33:23,311 --> 00:33:28,730
AMANN PERSONALLY BROUGHT
THE ACCOUNT BOOKS TO HITLER
565
00:33:28,765 --> 00:33:32,665
WHEREVER HE WAS, WHENEVER IT WAS
AN ACCOUNTING PERIOD.
566
00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,185
THERE ARE SEVERAL WITNESSES
TO THIS.
567
00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:37,601
NOBODY ELSE SAW THEM.
568
00:33:37,636 --> 00:33:40,087
IF HE WANTED MONEY
FOR SOMETHING,
569
00:33:40,121 --> 00:33:44,746
HE JUST USED HIM AS THE BANK.
570
00:33:44,781 --> 00:33:47,646
Narrator:
MAX AMANN DIED IN 1957,
571
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,132
TAKING THE SECRET OF
HITLER'S MONEY TO HIS GRAVE.
572
00:33:55,792 --> 00:33:58,588
IN NEW YORK, AN AMERICAN
FORENSIC ACCOUNTANT,
573
00:33:58,622 --> 00:34:00,728
KEN YORMARK,
HAS SPENT A LIFETIME
574
00:34:00,762 --> 00:34:02,557
TRYING TO TRACK DOWN THE CASH
575
00:34:02,592 --> 00:34:07,217
SQUIRRELED AWAY IN FOREIGN BANKS
BY THE NAZIS.
576
00:34:07,252 --> 00:34:10,772
Ken Yormark:
HITLER'S BANK ACCOUNTS
ARE NOT VERY WELL KNOWN.
577
00:34:10,806 --> 00:34:15,260
THERE IS NOT A LOT OF
INFORMATION THAT'S OUT THERE.
578
00:34:15,293 --> 00:34:18,884
HE HAD ACCOUNTS IN SWITZERLAND
AND IN HOLLAND.
579
00:34:21,542 --> 00:34:24,303
Narrator: YORMARK BELIEVES THAT
THE TRAIL TO HITLER'S MILLIONS
580
00:34:24,338 --> 00:34:27,650
MIGHT NOT YET BE STONE COLD.
581
00:34:27,686 --> 00:34:29,619
Yormark: I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED
IN CASES
582
00:34:29,652 --> 00:34:31,931
WHERE WE WERE ABLE
TO RECOUP INFORMATION
583
00:34:31,966 --> 00:34:34,864
FROM 1937 GOING FORWARD.
584
00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,627
IT WAS REPORTED THAT
THAT INFORMATION WAS DESTROYED.
585
00:34:37,661 --> 00:34:39,353
WELL, IN FACT IT WASN'T.
586
00:34:39,387 --> 00:34:42,045
YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE FUNDS.
587
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,117
Narrator: FOLLOWING THE FUNDS
IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE,
588
00:34:45,152 --> 00:34:47,947
AS FAR AS HITLER IS CONCERNED.
589
00:34:47,982 --> 00:34:50,088
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
590
00:34:50,121 --> 00:34:51,985
EVEN IN DEATH, THE NAZI LEADER
591
00:34:52,020 --> 00:34:54,989
MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE
TO SEPARATE WHAT WAS HIS
592
00:34:55,023 --> 00:34:59,580
FROM WHAT REALLY BELONGED
TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
593
00:34:59,614 --> 00:35:00,891
Yormark: LOOKING AT HIS WILL,
594
00:35:00,926 --> 00:35:04,757
YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE
HIS MEGALOMANIAC TENDENCIES
595
00:35:04,792 --> 00:35:08,520
WHERE HE LOOKS AT GERMANY AND HE
LOOKS AT HIMSELF AS BEING ONE.
596
00:35:08,554 --> 00:35:11,074
AND AS A RESULT,
ALL THE ASSETS OF GERMANY
597
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:13,007
ARE BASICALLY HIS OWN PIGGYBANK.
598
00:35:15,803 --> 00:35:16,942
Narrator: WHEN HITLER DIED,
599
00:35:16,976 --> 00:35:21,291
HE LEFT BEHIND AROUND 20
CLOSE LIVING RELATIVES.
600
00:35:21,326 --> 00:35:24,398
HIS SISTER, PAULA,
WAS NEXT OF KIN
601
00:35:24,432 --> 00:35:26,193
AND THE ONE
WHO FOLLOWED THE FUNDS
602
00:35:26,227 --> 00:35:28,678
TO TRY AND FIND THE PIGGYBANK.
603
00:35:28,712 --> 00:35:34,028
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
604
00:35:34,062 --> 00:35:37,169
HIS WILL CLEARLY STATED
THAT PAULA AND A HALF SISTER
605
00:35:37,204 --> 00:35:39,827
SHOULD HAVE THEIR STANDARDS
OF LIVING MAINTAINED
606
00:35:39,861 --> 00:35:43,624
FOR THEIR LIFETIMES.
607
00:35:43,658 --> 00:35:46,765
WHEN THE ALLIES CONFISCATED
ALL HIS KNOWN ASSETS,
608
00:35:46,799 --> 00:35:51,045
SHE WENT TO COURT
TO TRY TO GET THEM BACK.
609
00:35:51,079 --> 00:35:55,187
IN 1960, AFTER A 12-YEAR BATTLE,
A MUNICH COURT RULED
610
00:35:55,222 --> 00:35:58,984
SHE WAS ENTITLED TO TWO-THIRDS
OF HIS ESTATE.
611
00:35:59,018 --> 00:36:02,608
THE REMAINDER WENT TO HER
HALF SISTER AND BROTHER.
612
00:36:02,643 --> 00:36:06,819
BUT THEY PUT NO VALUE ON IT.
613
00:36:06,854 --> 00:36:08,545
THE NEXT STEP WOULD HAVE BEEN
TO IDENTIFY
614
00:36:08,580 --> 00:36:10,996
WHAT LEGALLY STILL BELONGED
TO HER BROTHER
615
00:36:11,030 --> 00:36:13,412
AND HOW MUCH IT WAS WORTH.
616
00:36:15,828 --> 00:36:18,452
PAULA HITLER NEVER GOT THAT FAR.
617
00:36:18,486 --> 00:36:22,490
SHE DIED IN JUNE 1960
AT THE AGE OF 64...
618
00:36:22,525 --> 00:36:26,391
FOUR MONTHS AFTER HER VICTORY.
619
00:36:26,425 --> 00:36:28,116
THE COURT SUBSEQUENTLY ORDERED
620
00:36:28,151 --> 00:36:30,464
THAT ANY BENEFIT
FROM HER BROTHER'S ESTATE
621
00:36:30,498 --> 00:36:33,777
WOULD NOW PASS TO HER HEIRS
AND RELATIVES.
622
00:36:38,782 --> 00:36:40,577
Yormark: THE BANK
HAS THE OBLIGATION
623
00:36:40,612 --> 00:36:42,717
AFTER AN ACCOUNT
HAS BEEN INACTIVE
624
00:36:42,752 --> 00:36:44,754
FOR A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF TIME
625
00:36:44,788 --> 00:36:46,652
TO REACH OUT TO THAT INDIVIDUAL
626
00:36:46,687 --> 00:36:50,138
AND TRY AND FIND OUT WHETHER
THEY ACTUALLY ARE STILL ALIVE.
627
00:36:50,173 --> 00:36:52,762
IF IN FACT THEY CAN'T FIND
THAT INDIVIDUAL,
628
00:36:52,796 --> 00:36:54,591
THEN THEY HAVE THE OBLIGATION
629
00:36:54,626 --> 00:36:58,388
TO REACH OUT TO AN HEIR,
TO TRY AND FIND THAT HEIR.
630
00:36:58,423 --> 00:37:02,634
IF ONE OF HITLER'S RELATIVES
WERE TO ATTEMPT TO DO SO TODAY,
631
00:37:02,668 --> 00:37:05,809
I THINK IT WOULD STIR
SOME SIGNIFICANT CONTROVERSY.
632
00:37:05,844 --> 00:37:07,777
THEY WOULD POTENTIALLY
HAVE THE RIGHT
633
00:37:07,811 --> 00:37:11,367
TO ATTEMPT TO TRY AND CLAIM
SOME OF THOSE FUNDS.
634
00:37:11,401 --> 00:37:13,610
Narrator: NOT ONLY HAVE
THE BANKS FAILED TO REACH OUT
635
00:37:13,645 --> 00:37:15,440
AFTER ALL THIS TIME,
636
00:37:15,474 --> 00:37:19,271
THEY'VE ALMOST CERTAINLY
TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF A NEW LAW.
637
00:37:19,306 --> 00:37:20,824
Yormark: WHEN AN ACCOUNT
BECOMES DORMANT
638
00:37:20,859 --> 00:37:22,964
AND ULTIMATELY GOES
TO THE STATE,
639
00:37:22,999 --> 00:37:25,898
THEY CAN'T USE THOSE FUNDS.
640
00:37:25,933 --> 00:37:27,728
SO THERE ARE BIG ISSUES
RIGHT NOW,
641
00:37:27,762 --> 00:37:29,419
FOR EXAMPLE IN SWITZERLAND,
642
00:37:29,454 --> 00:37:32,560
WHERE THERE'S JUST RECENTLY
BEEN PASSED A RULING
643
00:37:32,595 --> 00:37:35,149
THAT AFTER 62 YEARS
644
00:37:35,183 --> 00:37:39,187
AN ACCOUNT WOULD ACTUALLY PASS
TO THE GOVERNMENT.
645
00:37:39,222 --> 00:37:41,155
Narrator: IT'S NOW BEEN
MORE THAN 70 YEARS
646
00:37:41,189 --> 00:37:42,708
SINCE HITLER'S DEATH.
647
00:37:42,743 --> 00:37:46,505
SO THE NEW LAW ENSURES THAT
ANY CASH THE FUHRER DID HAVE
648
00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:48,369
WILL NEVER BE SEEN,
649
00:37:48,404 --> 00:37:54,272
MEANING SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE
HAS MADE A TIDY FORTUNE.
650
00:37:54,306 --> 00:37:58,103
ADOLF HITLER'S NAME AND IMAGE
IS STILL EARNING.
651
00:37:58,137 --> 00:38:00,381
THIS IS A MUSIC VIDEO
FROM THAILAND.
652
00:38:00,416 --> 00:38:02,797
THE BAND DON'T WANT IT
TO BE SEEN ANYMORE,
653
00:38:02,832 --> 00:38:05,559
BUT IT'S STILL
ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB.
654
00:38:07,768 --> 00:38:11,806
IN INDIA THERE WAS A CHAIN
OF HITLER TAILORS.
655
00:38:11,841 --> 00:38:16,224
IN BANGKOK, THERE IS A GROUP
OF FAST FOOD OUTLETS.
656
00:38:18,157 --> 00:38:21,747
WHEN A COLLECTION OF HIS LUXURY
MERCEDES WAS PUT UP FOR SALE,
657
00:38:21,782 --> 00:38:25,579
IT FETCHED $8 MILLION.
658
00:38:25,613 --> 00:38:27,546
THERE ARE NOW
ALL KINDS OF AUCTIONS
659
00:38:27,581 --> 00:38:31,792
INVOLVING ITEMS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN OWNED OR USED BY HITLER.
660
00:38:34,208 --> 00:38:36,969
A SIGNED COPY OF A TWO-PART
EDITION OF "MEIN KAMPF"
661
00:38:37,004 --> 00:38:39,351
WENT FOR $64,000
662
00:38:39,386 --> 00:38:45,115
TO AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE BUYER
IN JANUARY 2014.
663
00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:51,329
AND "MEIN KAMPF" WILL SOON BE
AVAILABLE FOR ALL TO CASH IN ON.
664
00:38:51,363 --> 00:38:54,746
Trees: COPYRIGHT ENDS 70 YEARS
AFTER THE AUTHOR'S DEATH,
665
00:38:54,780 --> 00:38:57,887
WHICH MEANS COPYRIGHT
WILL BE FREE AND OPEN
666
00:38:57,921 --> 00:38:59,371
AND WILL PASS
INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
667
00:38:59,406 --> 00:39:02,270
AT THE END OF 2015.
668
00:39:02,305 --> 00:39:06,033
WELL, STARTING
ON JANUARY 1, 2016,
669
00:39:06,067 --> 00:39:08,656
EVERYBODY IS BASICALLY
ALLOWED TO DO WITH THE TEXT
670
00:39:08,691 --> 00:39:10,209
WHATEVER HE WANTS.
671
00:39:10,244 --> 00:39:11,797
Narrator: SOME ARE ALREADY DOING
672
00:39:11,832 --> 00:39:14,386
WHATEVER THEY WANT
WITH THE BOOK.
673
00:39:14,421 --> 00:39:16,975
Trees: A COLLEAGUE OF OURS
RECENTLY TRAVELED TO INDIA,
674
00:39:17,009 --> 00:39:20,150
AND HE DISCOVERED THIS
ENGLISH VERSION OF "MEIN KAMPF"
675
00:39:20,185 --> 00:39:23,844
IN A BOOKSTORE IN DELHI--
OR NEW DELHI IT WAS, I BELIEVE--
676
00:39:23,878 --> 00:39:25,949
RIGHT NEXT TO A BIOGRAPHY
OF GANDHI,
677
00:39:25,984 --> 00:39:30,402
AND IT IS PRESENTED HERE
ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK
678
00:39:30,437 --> 00:39:31,852
"THAT IT WILL GIVE YOU
AN INSIGHT
679
00:39:31,886 --> 00:39:35,580
INTO ONE OF THE GREATEST EVIL
GENIUSES OF THE LAST CENTURY."
680
00:39:35,614 --> 00:39:38,548
WE WERE FLABBERGASTED--
I THINK THE BRITISH TERM IS--
681
00:39:38,583 --> 00:39:41,758
BY THIS, BECAUSE EVERYBODY
WOULD PROBABLY SUBSCRIBE TO EVIL
682
00:39:41,793 --> 00:39:44,865
BUT NOT SO MUCH TO GENIUS.
683
00:39:44,899 --> 00:39:47,488
Narrator: HITLER HAS EVEN BECOME
A SATIRICAL ATTRACTION
684
00:39:47,523 --> 00:39:49,248
ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
685
00:39:51,906 --> 00:39:53,667
"HIPSTER HITLER" IS A COMIC BOOK
686
00:39:53,701 --> 00:39:57,015
WITH A VERY
21st CENTURY GENESIS.
687
00:39:58,326 --> 00:39:59,604
James Carr: WE WERE
TALKING ON SKYPE,
688
00:39:59,638 --> 00:40:02,123
AND WE'D ALWAYS WANTED TO DO
A COMIC TOGETHER.
689
00:40:02,158 --> 00:40:04,850
ONE OF US SAID SOMETHING LIKE
"IRONIC HITLER,"
690
00:40:04,885 --> 00:40:07,025
AND THE OTHER PERSON SAID
"HIPSTER HITLER,"
691
00:40:07,059 --> 00:40:09,165
AND WE WERE LIKE,
OH, THAT HAS A RING TO IT.
692
00:40:09,199 --> 00:40:11,270
Archana Kumar: SO I SAID
I'LL DRAW SOMETHING RIGHT NOW.
693
00:40:11,305 --> 00:40:14,446
Carr: AND WE PUT IT UP, AND THEN
WE WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING,
694
00:40:14,481 --> 00:40:18,381
AND THERE WERE LIKE 50,000 HITS
ON THE WEBSITE, WHICH WAS WEIRD.
695
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:19,796
Kumar: SO THEN THAT'S
WHEN WE DECIDED
696
00:40:19,831 --> 00:40:22,316
TO ACTUALLY MAKE IT
A FULL COMIC.
697
00:40:22,350 --> 00:40:24,767
"HIPSTER HITLER"
IS BASICALLY A COMIC
698
00:40:24,801 --> 00:40:29,392
THAT ENVISIONS HITLER IF HE WAS
OPENLY TREATED AS A HIPSTER
699
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:32,982
AND ACTED TO AN EXTREME LEVEL
OF HIPSTERISM,
700
00:40:33,016 --> 00:40:36,192
IN THAT WORLD WAR TWO PERIOD.
701
00:40:36,226 --> 00:40:38,194
Carr: THERE WERE A LOT
OF TRAITS HITLER HAD
702
00:40:38,228 --> 00:40:41,749
THAT WERE IN LINE WITH WHAT WE
CONSIDER THE MODERN HIPSTER.
703
00:40:41,784 --> 00:40:45,304
HE WAS A VEGETARIAN, HE WAS
A BIG ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST.
704
00:40:45,339 --> 00:40:47,514
THE COMIC I HAVE OPEN
IS CALLED "RHINELAND."
705
00:40:47,548 --> 00:40:50,448
SO IT'S ABOUT HITLER DECIDING
TO RECLAIM THE RHINELAND.
706
00:40:50,482 --> 00:40:52,691
AND IN THE COMIC, THE REASON
HE TAKES IT BACK
707
00:40:52,726 --> 00:40:55,487
IS NOT BECAUSE OF
TERRITORIAL ISSUES,
708
00:40:55,522 --> 00:40:59,836
IT'S BECAUSE IT CONTAINS HOPS,
FLAX AND HEMP,
709
00:40:59,871 --> 00:41:04,979
WHICH CAN BE USED TO MAKE BEER,
AND HEMP FOR, LIKE, T-SHIRTS.
710
00:41:05,014 --> 00:41:07,637
SO HE'S HAPPY FOR THAT REASON.
711
00:41:07,672 --> 00:41:09,984
Kumar: I THINK HITLER
WOULD ABSOLUTELY PUT THIS
712
00:41:10,019 --> 00:41:11,641
ON THE LIST OF BOOKS TO BURN.
713
00:41:14,610 --> 00:41:16,025
Narrator: AN EVEN GREATER IRONY
714
00:41:16,059 --> 00:41:18,096
IS THAT THE PUBLISHERS
OF "HIPSTER HITLER"
715
00:41:18,130 --> 00:41:21,202
PAY NOTHING FOR THE USE
OF HIS IMAGE.
716
00:41:21,237 --> 00:41:24,343
ANY OTHER WELL-KNOWN PERSON
WOULD COST THEM MONEY,
717
00:41:24,378 --> 00:41:28,382
BECAUSE THEY WOULD ALMOST
CERTAINLY HAVE AN AGENT.
718
00:41:29,901 --> 00:41:32,524
LIKE MARK ROESLER,
WHO IS BASED IN INDIANA
719
00:41:32,559 --> 00:41:36,494
AND SPECIALIZES IN REPRESENTING
DECEASED STARS LIKE JAMES DEAN,
720
00:41:36,528 --> 00:41:39,669
AS WELL AS OTHER
MORE INFAMOUS CELEBRITIES,
721
00:41:39,704 --> 00:41:45,019
EARNING HIM THE NICKNAME
"AGENT OF THE DEAD."
722
00:41:45,054 --> 00:41:48,160
Mark Roesler: WE'VE OFTEN BEEN
APPROACHED BY FAMILY MEMBERS
723
00:41:48,195 --> 00:41:51,647
OF PEOPLE LIKE JOHN DILLINGER
TO THE SON OF SAM
724
00:41:51,681 --> 00:41:54,546
TO AL CAPONE, PEOPLE LIKE THAT.
725
00:41:54,581 --> 00:41:57,342
WHOEVER OWNS THOSE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
726
00:41:57,376 --> 00:42:00,069
CAN CONTINUE ON
AND NOT ONLY PROTECT THOSE
727
00:42:00,103 --> 00:42:03,106
BUT CONTINUE TO RECEIVE
THE INCOME STREAM
728
00:42:03,141 --> 00:42:05,281
THAT COMES FROM THOSE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS,
729
00:42:05,315 --> 00:42:09,388
WHICH CAN OFTEN BE
VERY SUBSTANTIAL.
730
00:42:09,423 --> 00:42:12,495
IN THE CASE OF HITLER,
WE KNOW ABOUT HIS BOOK,
731
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,255
WE KNOW THAT UPON HIS DEATH
732
00:42:14,290 --> 00:42:19,157
THOSE COPYRIGHTS WERE ASSIGNED
OR CONVEYED TO SOMEONE ELSE.
733
00:42:19,191 --> 00:42:20,814
IN ADDITION TO THAT,
734
00:42:20,848 --> 00:42:24,576
IT IS POSSIBLE
THAT CERTAIN FAMILY MEMBERS
735
00:42:24,611 --> 00:42:27,441
COULD TAKE OUT
TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS
736
00:42:27,475 --> 00:42:30,927
TO HIS NAME OR EVEN HIS IMAGE.
737
00:42:30,962 --> 00:42:34,137
BUT THE THIRD AREA,
IN THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY,
738
00:42:34,172 --> 00:42:36,208
IT'S A RIGHT THAT WE ALL HAVE,
739
00:42:36,243 --> 00:42:37,934
WHETHER YOU'RE FAMOUS
OR NOT FAMOUS
740
00:42:37,969 --> 00:42:40,419
OR INFAMOUS OR NOT,
741
00:42:40,454 --> 00:42:44,216
AND THAT'S GENERALLY THE
RIGHT THAT SOMEONE WOULD HAVE--
742
00:42:44,251 --> 00:42:46,287
A DESCENDANT OR AN ASSIGNEE--
743
00:42:46,322 --> 00:42:49,877
TO PROTECT THE NAME AND LIKENESS
AND THE OVERALL GOOD WILL
744
00:42:49,912 --> 00:42:53,605
ASSOCIATED WITH HITLER.
745
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,814
YOU KNOW, SO IT COULD BE
GOOD WILL, BAD WILL,
746
00:42:55,849 --> 00:42:58,955
NOTORIETY, INFAMY, WHATEVER.
747
00:43:03,822 --> 00:43:05,617
Narrator: INFAMY AND NOTORIETY
748
00:43:05,652 --> 00:43:09,276
HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PART
OF HITLER'S IMAGE.
749
00:43:09,310 --> 00:43:12,728
AND IT'S EMERGED THAT HE WAS
WELL AHEAD OF TODAY'S GAME
750
00:43:12,762 --> 00:43:15,006
WHEN IT CAME TO CASHING IN.
751
00:43:17,111 --> 00:43:21,150
IN 1921, WHEN HE BECAME LEADER
OF THE NAZI PARTY,
752
00:43:21,184 --> 00:43:24,532
HITLER APPOINTED THIS MAN
HIS OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER--
753
00:43:24,567 --> 00:43:26,431
HEINRICH HOFFMAN.
754
00:43:26,465 --> 00:43:29,089
IT MADE THEM BOTH RICH.
755
00:43:29,123 --> 00:43:32,161
Whetton: NOW, IT WAS HOFFMAN
WHO HAD THE GREAT IDEA
756
00:43:32,195 --> 00:43:34,612
OF COPYRIGHTING HITLER'S IMAGE.
757
00:43:34,646 --> 00:43:36,683
AND NOBODY THEN
COULD DO ANYTHING
758
00:43:36,717 --> 00:43:40,514
WITHOUT PAYING THE FEES
TO HOFFMAN'S AGENCY,
759
00:43:40,548 --> 00:43:43,413
WHICH OF COURSE
THEN CAME TO HITLER.
760
00:43:43,448 --> 00:43:47,452
THEY HAD A COPYRIGHT
ON ANY HITLER IMAGE,
761
00:43:47,486 --> 00:43:50,006
ANYTHING AND EVERYWHERE.
762
00:43:50,041 --> 00:43:53,182
Narrator: WHEN THEY PUT HIS HEAD
ON GERMANY'S POSTAGE STAMPS,
763
00:43:53,216 --> 00:43:55,425
FEW REALIZED
THAT THE MAN HIMSELF
764
00:43:55,460 --> 00:43:57,186
WAS GETTING
A PERSONAL COMMISSION
765
00:43:57,220 --> 00:43:59,671
FOR THE USE OF HIS IMAGE.
766
00:44:02,605 --> 00:44:05,470
IT'S ALMOST CERTAIN
THAT NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW
767
00:44:05,504 --> 00:44:09,405
EXACTLY HOW MUCH ADOLF HITLER
WAS WORTH WHEN HE DIED,
768
00:44:09,439 --> 00:44:13,271
NOR WHAT THE REAL INTENTIONS
OF HIS PERSONAL WILL WERE.
769
00:44:15,756 --> 00:44:20,623
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
770
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:24,903
FOR THE MAN WHO FIRST TRANSLATED
HITLER'S WILL IN 1945,
771
00:44:24,938 --> 00:44:26,560
THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS FOUND
772
00:44:26,594 --> 00:44:29,874
WILL ALWAYS EVOKE
STRONG MEMORIES.
773
00:44:41,851 --> 00:44:44,233
Rothman:
I WAS A 20-YEAR-OLD BOY...
774
00:44:44,267 --> 00:44:46,442
A BOY, YES...
775
00:44:46,476 --> 00:44:50,032
WHO EXPERIENCED QUITE A LOT.
776
00:44:50,066 --> 00:44:52,206
THERE'S NO LIFE HERE WHATSOEVER.
777
00:44:52,241 --> 00:44:53,552
THAT'S FUNNY, ISN'T IT?
778
00:44:53,587 --> 00:44:58,178
YOU DON'T SEE ANY BIRDS.
779
00:44:58,212 --> 00:45:02,113
I THINK THE BIRDS MUST REALIZE
WHAT HAPPENED HERE BEFORE.
780
00:45:07,739 --> 00:45:10,604
I THINK THERE
MUST HAVE BEEN A HITLER
781
00:45:10,638 --> 00:45:15,505
WHO WASN'T EXACTLY THE TYPE HE
PROJECTED TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
782
00:45:15,540 --> 00:45:18,819
BUT THERE WAS
AN INNER, PRIVATE HITLER.
783
00:45:18,854 --> 00:45:20,338
AND THAT PRIVATE HITLER
784
00:45:20,372 --> 00:45:23,755
WANTED TO MAKE USE
OF THE POSITION WHICH HE HAD,
785
00:45:23,790 --> 00:45:26,689
USE OF THE POWER WHICH HE HAD.
786
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:31,073
BUT HE KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING
TO COMMIT SUICIDE, YES,
787
00:45:31,107 --> 00:45:35,284
AND THEREFORE HE SAID,
"NOW I HAVE TO MAKE A WILL."
788
00:45:35,318 --> 00:45:37,562
HE WANTED TO SHOW HIS AMBITION
789
00:45:37,596 --> 00:45:40,807
AS PURELY
FOR THE GERMAN PEOPLE.
790
00:45:42,256 --> 00:45:47,814
AND A MAN LIKE THAT WANTED TO
PROJECT THAT IMAGE FOR ETERNITY.
791
00:45:47,848 --> 00:45:51,679
THAT'S WHY HE MADE THIS
PRIVATE WILL VERY, VERY LITTLE.
792
00:45:51,714 --> 00:45:55,235
WHAT WAS THE REAL HITLER,
793
00:45:55,269 --> 00:45:58,859
I THINK, WILL TAKE
MANY YEARS TO FIND OUT.
59775
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